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| Rei stared at the espresso machine with a look of utter distain, and asked himself for the thirty-fifth time this shift why he had said, “Ok, sure.” when his manager had asked if he would agree to be café trained. In Rei’s opinion, there was absolutely no benefit to working the Barns & Nobel Café. Not only did he have to deal with annoying customers, now he was required to deal with all the retarded Starbucks lingo, not to mention the coffee snobs. If he had another customer tell him to remake their latte because “the espresso tasted off” he just might give in to the urge to pour scalding milk over their head and have done with it. Looking back to the cup his co-worker had slid across the bar to him, Rei looked at the barely legible scrawl on the side of the cup indicating what strange concoction he was supposed to be making this time. “A ‘Venti’ soy cappuccino…” Rei muttered to himself as he bent down to get the soy milk from the mini-fridge and wondered yet again why he had agreed to café training. Scowling, he straightened up, splashed soy milk into the appropriate tin pitcher and began to attempt to foam the vile beige liquid. ‘Don’t these people know that this soy nonsense doesn’t fucking foam!?’ he demanded silently of the steam wand which wisely did not respond. Four pitchers of overheated soy milk later, enough foam had accumulated to fill the thrice damned cup. Rei put the lid on the cappuccino and placed it on the ledge as he announced, “One large, soy, cappuccino,” before turning to grab the next cup only to find an empty spot on the counter where a cup should be waiting. He looked up at his co-worker, who was now leaning against the counter grinning at him. Apparently the freak who had ordered the drink from hell had been the last person in line. With a mildly irritated look, he picked up the pitchers and brought them to the sink to clean them all the while asking himself for the thirty-seventh time that shift why he had said, “Ok, sure.” when his manager had asked if he would agree to be café trained. |